Well, to begin with my site is becoming more and more its own content. I could fill pages and pages describing technical problems, php used as an Apache module or as CGI, file permissions, .htaccess, trans SID or cookies, database timeouts, workarounds for sqlmyadmin, script upgrades, mod rewrite and so on. I’ll attach a “to-do” file to this node where I describe some of the passages I made to upgrade the engine to the 4.6.0 version so that I can find it again when I’ll have to go through all this mess. Plus there was the server move to Dreamhost.

Even if I worked on all this, the results do not seem evident. The site looks exactly the same as always despite a long list of fixes and tweaks (for example the search function works slightly better and doesn’t list just the titles – the “categories” block on the sidebar doesn’t mess anymore between forum categories and nodes) and I still need to fix some problems related to wrong php.ini settings. You could see strange “?PHPSESSID” in the url of your browser and the cookies vanishing after 10 minutes or so but I won’t be able to fix that without an answer from Dreamhost since I do not have access to those configuration files without recompiling the php locally (please.. no).

The site seems working but I’m not sure if it will simply crumble while I type (*knocks on wood*) or if it’s really all ok and stable. Dreamhost is a wonderful hosting service and I’m definitely happy with the services they provide and their attitude. I had a few problems here and there, my e-mails are still not working (oh, fixed while I was writing) and they are slow to answer my support requests but the quality of the service is really good and I hope to finally settle down and not miss anything of what I left behind.

You know, I’m supposed to write about mmorpgs. Not to have a site where I write about how to mantain it. In the last few weeks I spent more time to work to keep this place up than actually provide a content or even play a game. It doesn’t make sense. It’s like buying a car because you have to go somwhere and then spend all your time to work (and spend money) on it so that it keeps moving. At some point I’ll forget that this site had a purpose (no, really?).

In the meantime a lot of interesting *and* retarded *and* predictable stuff happened, from WoW’s last patch (which is already mirrored here if your really aren’t able to get it from a more reliable place) to Smed finally revealing what were those ideas to “take the game to the next level”. You remember that letter, right? I guess it fits perfectly the last selling-out. Is it possible to fuck a game, and the whole company behind, more than this?

Raph, are you really sure you cannot find a better place?

I feel tired. I look around and I see the same everywhere. Is it just my blurred vision to shade everything like that? I find harder and harder to write down ideas and comments always about the same arguments and repeating endlessly the same conclusions. For sure I’ll finish to “zone-out” the blogosphere because I’m not interested to chase those arguments and at the same time I’m failing to find the motivation to suggest something else.

I was busy, I had my site collapsing and requiring more work and I’ll be busy again in the next days. But even the other blogs seems slowed down for their own reasons.

So, what’s up? [add random commonplace here]

(btw, the guys at Dreamhost are cool. I just received an answer to my support request with at the bottom a note commenting the instancing in WoW and FFXI, eheh)